12/111 Petav So diaegaemasi sophois omou kai terpnois aedio taen Thoinaen tois hestiomenois epoiei, Choricius in Fabric.Bibl.Gr. P.851.logois gar estia, Athenaeus vii p 275, A 11 It was at Bolissus, and in the house of this Chian citizen, that Homer is said to have written the Batrachomyomachia, or Battle of the Frogs and Mice, the Epicichlidia, and some other minor works. 61, referred to in the Voyage Pittoresque dans la Grece, vol.i. P.92, where a view of the spot is given of which the author candidly says,-- "Je ne puis repondre d'une exactitude scrupuleuse dans la vue generale que j'en donne, car etant alle seul pour l'examiner je perdis mon crayon, et je fus oblige de m'en fier a ma memoire. |